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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:22:56 -0400
Subject: Re: Docstring parsing and formatting
From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
To: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 9/17/2012 10:03 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>> Howdy all,
>>
>> Where can I find a standard implementation of the docstring parsing and
>> splitting algorithm from PEP 257?


Do you know about pydoc?  I haven't looked at its source, but since it
does a great job of printing documentation from docstrings it might
contain what you need



-- 
Joel Goldstick